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