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