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