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