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