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