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