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