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