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