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