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