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