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