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