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