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