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