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