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