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