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