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