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