β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.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 shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.
β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.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 shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.