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