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