Fun Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out

A group of owls is called a parliament

A single cloud can weigh more than 1 million pounds

A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air

A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about 6 billion tons

Humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas

Your heart beats about 100,000 times per day

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus

Polar bear fur is not white — it's transparent

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way

A snail can sleep for three years

The Eiffel Tower grows in summer

Butterflies taste with their feet

The speed of light is the same in all reference frames — this leads to time dilation

Quantum particles can be in two places at once until measured

There may be an infinite number of universes

The average person has about 60,000 thoughts per day — and many are repetitive

Your memories are recreated each time you recall them — and can be altered

The human genome contains more viral DNA than 'human' DNA

The Great Pyramid was built when woolly mammoths still existed

The oldest known individual tree is a clone — the root system is 80,000 years old

At the quantum level, the act of observing changes what's being observed

The mitochondria in your cells were once free-living bacteria

There are more ways to arrange a deck of 52 cards than there are atoms on Earth

Quantum particles can tunnel through barriers that should be impossible to cross

The placebo effect can work even when you know it's a placebo

The universe is expanding faster than the speed of light

Black holes can theoretically evaporate over trillions of years

The concept of 'now' is different for everyone — there's no universal present

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out

A group of owls is called a parliament

A single cloud can weigh more than 1 million pounds

A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air

A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about 6 billion tons

Humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas

Your heart beats about 100,000 times per day

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus

Polar bear fur is not white — it's transparent

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way

A snail can sleep for three years

The Eiffel Tower grows in summer

Butterflies taste with their feet

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still perfectly edible.

Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.

You can't hum while holding your nose.

Wombat poop is cube-shaped.

A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.

A single strand of spaghetti is called a 'spaghetto'.

The dot over the letters 'i' and 'j' is called a 'tittle'.

Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.

The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days

Your bones are stronger than steel

The world's oldest known living tree is over 4,800 years old

The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley's gum

There's a town called 'Batman' in Turkey

There's a lake that can turn animals to stone

The human brain generates enough electricity to power a small light bulb

The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was -128.6°F

The universe has a smell — and it's rum

There's a word for the day after tomorrow: overmorrow

There are more possible ways to shuffle a deck of cards than atoms on Earth

Humans are the only animals that blush

The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a distress signal

The inventor of the modern traffic light was Black — and it was never patented

There's a planet made of diamond

The longest English word is 189,819 letters long

Cats cannot taste sweetness

The fingerprints of koala bears are nearly identical to human fingerprints

The oldest known customer complaint is 4,000 years old

There are more bacteria in your mouth than people on Earth

The dot in a domain name is called a 'dot' but the @ symbol has no official name

There's a glacier that flows upside down

Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days

The first computer bug was an actual bug

The Great Wall of China is not visible from space

The shortest commercial flight in the world is 1.7 miles

A species of jellyfish is biologically immortal

The average person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the world in their lifetime

Honeybees can recognize human faces

The first oranges weren't orange

Hot water freezes faster than cold water under certain conditions

The shortest war in history lasted only 38 to 45 minutes.

A jiffy is an actual unit of time — it equals 1/100th of a second.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid.

The total weight of all ants on Earth roughly equals the total weight of all humans.

The heart of a blue whale is so large that a small child could swim through its arteries.

The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.

Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't.

Octopuses have three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood.

The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.

The speed of light is the same in all reference frames — this leads to time dilation

Quantum particles can be in two places at once until measured

There may be an infinite number of universes

The average person has about 60,000 thoughts per day — and many are repetitive

Your memories are recreated each time you recall them — and can be altered

The human genome contains more viral DNA than 'human' DNA

The Great Pyramid was built when woolly mammoths still existed

The oldest known individual tree is a clone — the root system is 80,000 years old

At the quantum level, the act of observing changes what's being observed

The mitochondria in your cells were once free-living bacteria

There are more ways to arrange a deck of 52 cards than there are atoms on Earth

Quantum particles can tunnel through barriers that should be impossible to cross

The placebo effect can work even when you know it's a placebo

The universe is expanding faster than the speed of light

Black holes can theoretically evaporate over trillions of years

The concept of 'now' is different for everyone — there's no universal present

Your consciousness may arise from the brain's inability to process its own complexity

DNA from a single cell, if stretched out, would be about 2 meters long

The observable universe might be a tiny fraction of the total universe

There are 10^80 particles in the observable universe — and 10^120 possible chess games

You have a second brain in your gut with 100 million neurons

The human body replaces itself with a largely new set of cells every 7 to 10 years

Time passes more slowly for your feet than for your head

There are more synapses in your brain than stars in the Milky Way

The information in a single human cell would fill 1.5 million encyclopedia pages

It would take about 1.2 million mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human body of blood.

There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.