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