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