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