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