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