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