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