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