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