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