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