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