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