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