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