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