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