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