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