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