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