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