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