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