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