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