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