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