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