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