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