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