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