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