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