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