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