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