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