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