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