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