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