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