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