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