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