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