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