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