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