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