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