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