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