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