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