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