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