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