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