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