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