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