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