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