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