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