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