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