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