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