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