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