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