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