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