β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.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
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.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 Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.
β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.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
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.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 Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.