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