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