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