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