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