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