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