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