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