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