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