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