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