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