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