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