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