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