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