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