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