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