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