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