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