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