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