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