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