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