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