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