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