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