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