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