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