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