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