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