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