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