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