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