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