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