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