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