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