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