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