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