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