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