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