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