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