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