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