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