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