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