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