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