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