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