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