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