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