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