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