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