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