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