Funny Facts

Bananas are botanically classified as berries, whereas strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries a...

Sea otters often sleep in groups (called 'rafts') and have been known to hold each other's paws whil...

The James Webb Space Telescope is so sensitive to infrared that it could detect the heat of a bumble...

The first oranges weren't orange. They were green. The color was named after the fruit, not the othe...

A decapitated rattlesnake head can still reflexively bite and inject venom even an hour after being ...

The small-banded kukri snake has a gruesome feeding habit: it slices open the belly of a live toad w...

Cows have best friends and get stressed when they are separated.

On Venus, a single day lasts about 243 Earth days – longer than a Venusian year, which is about 225 ...

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. Venus rotates so slowly that it takes 243 Earth days ...

Wombats are unique for producing cube-shaped poop. Scientists believe they evolved to drop cubic fec...

Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen and calories your body consumes, despite being only 2% of your bod...

Male ring-tailed lemurs settle territorial disputes with “stink fights” – they rub their tails on sc...

The human heart pumps so much blood over an average lifetime – about 215 million liters – that it co...

By the end of your life, you will have shed roughly 1,000 complete layers of skin – essentially repl...

After giving birth, mother Stegodyphus spiders literally sacrifice themselves: over two weeks the mo...

Oxpecker birds not only eat ticks off large mammals – they also sip blood from the open wounds of th...

Honey never spoils – archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs, thousands of...

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over ...

A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance."

A blind cave crustacean called Xibalbanus tulumensis is the only known venomous crustacean. It injec...

Saturn has an average density lower than water – the only planet that would float in a (hypothetical...

In the 1830s, ketchup was sold as a medicine. An Ohio physician named John Cook marketed tomato ketc...

Over an average 80-year lifespan, a person produces about 20,000 to 30,000 liters of saliva – enough...

Mercury is the fastest planet in our solar system, speeding through space at about 47 km/s (107,000 ...

Vampire bats can drink blood from a wound for up to 30 minutes without waking the victim. Their sali...

When threatened, sea cucumbers will literally expel their internal organs – essentially puking their...

A species of ant (Formica archboldi) in Florida decorates its nest with the decapitated heads and li...

Space has a distinct odor: astronauts report that after spacewalks their suits smell of seared steak...

Humans actually emit a faint glow of visible light; our bodies produce "ultraweak photon emissions" ...

Lobster was once considered a low-class food in colonial America. It was so abundant and cheap that ...