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