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