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