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