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