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