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