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