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