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