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