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