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