β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.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
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.
β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.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
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.