The Bee Hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber of the same size.

Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.

The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.

Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

Cats can hear ultrasound.

The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body.

Pigs can get sunburn.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

A ten-gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.

Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

Frogs never drink.

Only male turkeys gobble.

At birth a Dalmatian is always pure white.

Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet.

The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.

The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.

Beavers were once the size of bears.

A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.

Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.

Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.

Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass.

Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero.

Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.

The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.

In 1634, Tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.

A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.

A male kangaroo is called a Boomer.

If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.

The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.

A Galapagos tortoise can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.

An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.

The Basenji is a dog that yodels instead of barking.

Cows give more milk when they listen to music.

The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.

A compass needle does not point directly north.

Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice.

Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.

In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.

No two lip impressions are the same.

The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.

Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.

The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.

Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.

Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.

Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.

The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.

Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.

Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.

A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.

U.S. paper currency isn’t made of paper – it’s actually a blend of cotton and linen.

The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.

Snails can sleep for up to three years.

The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.

Human eyes have over two million working parts.

Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.

Astronauts actually get taller when in space.

Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.

It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.

Dogs can make about 10 sounds, while cats make about 100.

A pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.

The average cat can jump 5 times as high as its tail is long.

Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.

Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.

A camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.

There is a museum of strawberries in Belgium.

Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.

A spider’s silk is stronger than steel.

Twins have a very high occurrence of left-handedness.

The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.

All scorpions glow.

A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.

Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.

Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.

The praying mantis can turn its head 180 degrees.

A group of goats is called a trip.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Some bears build nests in trees to sunbathe and rest.

A group of jellyfish is called a smack.

The middle finger has the fastest growing nail.

The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.

It is not possible to tickle yourself.

Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.

Children grow faster during springtime.

Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.

Children have more taste buds than adults.

A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry.

The bumblebee bat weighs less than a penny.

Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.

Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

A crocodile can't stick out its tongue.

A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.

Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.

Forty percent of twins invent their own language.

The longest attack of hiccups lasted 68 years.

A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than the sun.

Tennis was originally played with bare hands.

Dolphins are unable to smell.

When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.

Cows do not have upper front teeth.

In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.

Each year, the Moon moves away from Earth by about four centimeters.

To make one pound of honey, a honeybee must tap about two million flowers.

Baby bunnies are called kittens.

Sea otters hold each other’s paws while sleeping so they don’t drift apart.

Gentoo penguins propose to their life mates with a pebble.

A group of porcupines is called a prickle.

OMG was added to dictionaries in 2011, but it’s first known use was in 1917.

Rats and mice are ticklish, and even laugh when tickled.

Norway once knighted a penguin.

The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.

Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.

One is the only number with letters in reverse alphabetical order.

DFW Airport in Texas is larger than the island of Manhattan.

Miami installed the first ATM for inline skaters.

Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae as humans: 7.

Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.

Strawberries are actually members of the rose family.

Mint comes in over 30 varieties.

Ancient Romans thought strawberries could cure bad breath and chronic fainting.

Strawberries taste sweeter at room temperature.

Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise.

You can’t hum while plugging your nose.

Elephants are afraid of bees.

Chimps can develop their own fashion trends.

It takes around 200 muscles to take a step.

The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.

Adult humans are the only mammal that can't breathe and swallow at the same time.

There are more fake than real flamingos.

Jellyfish can clone themselves.

Walruses are true party animals; they can go without sleep for 84 hours.

Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light.

Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon.

The only thing that can scratch a diamond is a diamond.

In the U.S., there is an official rock, paper, scissors league.

There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.

Hawaiian pizza was actually created in Canada.

In Venus, it snows metal.

The average dog can understand over 150 words.

Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.

Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world.

75% of the U.S.’s tart cherries come from Michigan.

Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.

Antarctica is home to the largest desert in the world.

Elephants can smell water from miles away.

You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.

An average cumulus cloud weighs more than 70 adult T-Rexes.

The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.

The ostrich produces a booming noise, often confused with a lion roar.

You are always looking at your nose, your brain just chooses to ignore it.

Golf was the first sport to be played on the moon.

A housefly hums in the key of F.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

The sun is actually white, but the earth’s atmosphere makes it appear yellow.

Snakes can see even with their eyes closed

A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.

Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.

Mountain lions can whistle.

When a koala is born, it is about the size of a jelly bean.

Toe wrestling is a competitive sport.

A caterpillar has more muscles than a human.

Water can boil and freeze at the same time.

Yawns are contagious to dogs as well as humans.

Silly String was originally designed to be a spray on cast for broken bones.

An avocado is actually a large berry.

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

In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.

Scotland has 421 words for snow.

Octopuses think with their tentacles.

The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent the 100 ways to cook an egg.

Some cats are allergic to humans.

The tiny pocket in jeans was made for pocket watches.

Two of Snapple’s founders were window washers in Brooklyn.

One of Snapple’s original founders ran a sardine and pickle store in Queens with his family.

The Snapple name combines the words Snappy and Apple.

Ants won’t cross a chalk line.

Mangos are related to cashews and pistachios.

Banana trees are actually herbs.

"Donut Towns" are towns that are completely surrounded by other towns.

Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.

Both green and black tea come from leaves of the same tree.