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