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