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