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