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