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