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