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