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