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