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