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