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