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