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