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