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