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