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