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