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