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