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