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