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