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