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