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