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