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