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