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