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