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