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