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