β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.
β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.