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