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