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