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