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