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