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