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