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