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