β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.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
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.
β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.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
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.