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