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