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