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