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