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