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