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