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