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