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