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