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