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