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