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