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