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