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