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