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