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