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