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