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