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