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