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