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