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