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