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