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