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