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