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