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