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