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