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