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