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