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