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