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