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