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