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