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