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