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