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