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