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