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