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