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