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