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