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