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