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