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