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