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