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