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Honey can remain edible for thousands of years.

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

Octopuses have three hearts.

Bananas are botanically berries.

Strawberries are not true berries.

The Eiffel Tower expands in heat and can grow several inches taller in summer.

Sharks existed before trees.

The tongue heals faster than most body parts.

Koalas have fingerprints similar to human fingerprints.

A blue whale’s heart can weigh as much as a small car.

Some turtles can absorb oxygen through their cloaca.

Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins.

It takes about two years for a pineapple to grow.

A cloud can weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Cows can form social bonds and prefer specific companions.

Octopuses can taste with their suckers.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto.

Cats cannot taste sweetness.

The Moon is slowly moving away from Earth.

Sea otters hold each other to avoid drifting apart.

Polar bear fur is transparent.

The Great Wall of China is thousands of miles long.

Some frogs can survive freezing.

Avocados are berries.

The world’s largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide.

Bees can recognize human faces.

Hummingbirds can fly backward.

Venus rotates in the opposite direction from most planets.

The Amazon rainforest produces its own rainfall through transpiration.

Some mushrooms glow in the dark.

Rats laugh when tickled (ultrasonically).

Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing.

Some butterflies remember experiences from before metamorphosis.

The largest living structure is the Great Barrier Reef.

The deepest point on Earth is over 36,000 feet deep (Mariana Trench).

Lightning is hotter than the surface of the Sun.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the animal kingdom.

Humans glow faintly due to biophoton emission.

Bamboo can grow more than a meter in a day.

Bats are the only mammals capable of sustained flight.

Koalas sleep up to 20 hours a day.

Dolphins have individual whistles (names).

Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as humans.

Cheetahs are the fastest land animals.

Saturn is less dense than water.

Dogs can understand hundreds of human words.

Earth is the only known planet with liquid water on the surface.

Pluto is smaller than the United States.

Jellyfish have existed for over 500 million years.

Octopuses are highly intelligent problem solvers.

Tomatoes are botanically fruits.

The Sun makes up most of the mass in the solar system.

Dolphins sleep with half their brain awake.

Humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas.

Male seahorses carry and birth the young.

An ostrich’s eye is larger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin.

There are volcanoes on other planets and moons.

Penguins can leap several feet from the water.

Spiders use tiny hairs to “hear” vibrations.

A hummingbird’s heart can beat over 1,000 times per minute.

The mantis shrimp has some of the most complex eyes known.

Antarctica is the driest continent.

The Andes Mountains contain the world’s highest lake.

Lobsters use smell sensors on their legs.

Some ants farm fungus.

The human nose can detect vast numbers of scents (in the trillions).

The Pacific Ocean is larger than all landmasses combined.

The shortest complete English sentence is “Go.”

Starfish have no centralized brain.

Komodo dragons have venom glands.

Humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor.

Electric eels generate electric shocks.

Venus is hotter than Mercury despite being farther from the Sun.

Human teeth are as strong as shark teeth in mineral composition.

Fireflies produce light with nearly 100% efficiency.

Some plants communicate chemically underground.

Certain fungi can control ant behavior (“zombie ants”).

Humans and giraffes both have 7 neck vertebrae.

Snowflakes form in hexagonal patterns.

All the planets can fit between Earth and the Moon (with some spacing adjustments).

The Sahara Desert expands and contracts over millennia.

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Cats have a specialized collarbone that helps them always land upright.

Kangaroos cannot walk backward.

Whales have regional “accents” in their songs.

Sloths move so slowly algae can grow on their fur.

Earth’s magnetic field is constantly shifting.

Sharks do not have bones—only cartilage.

The human skeleton regenerates over time.

Crocodiles have extremely strong bite force.

The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world.

Humans shed millions of skin cells daily.

Elephants can distinguish between human languages.

Horses can sleep standing up.

Bacteria outnumber human cells in the body.

Turtle shells are part of their skeleton.

Lightning can strike the same place repeatedly.

The deepest lake is Lake Baikal.

Owls have specialized feathers for silent flight.

Dogs have three eyelids.

Honeybees communicate through dance.

The Moon has no atmosphere.

Some fish use electricity to navigate.

Flamingos get their pink color from their diet.

Most of Earth’s oxygen comes from ocean phytoplankton.

The heaviest recorded bird able to fly was over 40 pounds.

Some plants can move rapidly, like the Venus flytrap.

Spiders can regenerate lost legs.

Sound travels faster in water than air.

A giraffe’s tongue is around 20 inches long.

Butterflies can see ultraviolet light.

Sea stars can regenerate arms.

The Arctic is an ocean surrounded by land.

The Antarctic is land surrounded by ocean.

The Milky Way contains hundreds of billions of stars.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a storm larger than Earth.

The speed of light is constant in a vacuum.

Rainbows are full circles, but we see half.

Earth’s surface is mostly water.

Rivers can flow north or south depending on elevation.

Coyotes and wolves can interbreed.

Some birds mate for life.

The human brain uses about 20% of the body’s energy.

Zebras’ stripes help deter biting flies.

Humans have a unique chinning reflex (we blush).

Some insects migrate thousands of miles.

Fire tornadoes can occur during wildfires.

Viruses are not considered living organisms by strict definition.

Space is almost entirely silent.

Saturn’s rings are composed of ice and rock.

Coral reefs support enormous biodiversity.

Some whales fast for months during migration.

Birds evolved from dinosaurs.

Cats have retractable claws.

Frogs absorb water through their skin.

The hottest recorded place on Earth is Death Valley.

The coldest recorded place is Antarctica.

Venus has the longest day of any planet in the solar system.

Mars has the largest volcano, Olympus Mons.

Many plants release oxygen during the day and carbon dioxide at night.

The Amazon River is the world’s largest by volume.

Owls can rotate their heads up to 270 degrees.

Dolphins are capable of complex problem-solving.

The human heart beats around 100,000 times a day.

Lightning can form glass-like structures in sand called fulgurites.

All snowflakes are unique at the microscopic level.

Black holes warp space-time.

Trees communicate through mycorrhizal networks.

The hottest chili peppers can trigger pain receptors without causing actual damage.

Some animals can regenerate entire organs.

Bees are crucial pollinators for many crops.

The blue whale is the largest animal ever to exist.

The Sun is a G-type main sequence star.

Your brain sometimes continues processing while you sleep.

Kelp forests are some of the fastest-growing ecosystems on Earth.

The Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way.

Lions live in social groups called prides.