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