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