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