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