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