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