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