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