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