β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.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
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.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.
