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