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