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