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