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