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