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