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