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