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