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