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An octopus can regenerate its arms if they are lost or damaged.

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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

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A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures of 30,000 Kelvin, five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

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Starfish have no brain or blood.

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You can fit all the planets of the solar system between Earth and the moon, with space to spare

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Sea cucumbers can eject their internal organs to defend against predators.

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Bananas glow blue under UV light.

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A group of parrots is called a "Pandemonium".

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Your nose can detect a trillion different smells.

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The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day when awake

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Dragonflies can fly backward.

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There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the world's beaches.

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Sloths can turn their heads 270 degrees.

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The world’s smallest reptile, Brookesia nana, was discovered in 2021 and fits on a fingertip.

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Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.

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The Great Wall of China is not visible from space without aid.

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Turritopsis dohrnii, the "immortal jellyfish," can revert to its juvenile form after reaching adulthood.

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Ravens can mimic human speech.

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India gained independence on August 15, 1947, ending nearly 200 years of British rule.

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The Indian national flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya.

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The Indian Independence Act of 1947 was passed by the British Parliament on July 18, 1947.

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A shrimp's heart is located in its head.

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The longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long and would take about three and a half hours to pronounce.

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Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, gave the famous "Tryst with Destiny" speech on the eve of independence.

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A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.

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The "Father of the Nation", Mahatma Gandhi, did not attend the Independence Day celebrations in 1947.

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The Indian national flag was first hoisted on August 7, 1906, in Calcutta (now Kolkata).

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The moon has moonquakes, caused by tidal forces from Earth.

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A giraffe can clean its ears with its tongue, which can be up to 20 inches long.

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The largest living organism on Earth is a fungus in Oregon that covers 2,385 acres.

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The inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Edison, was afraid of the dark.

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Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.

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The longest recorded time a chicken has lived without its head is 18 months.

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Octopuses have blue blood, due to the copper-based molecule hemocyanin, which transports oxygen.

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The inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough, ate a spoonful of it every day.

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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons

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Honey never spoils.

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A day is longer than a year on Venus.

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A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.

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A single teaspoon of honey represents the life work of 12 bees.

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Sharks have been around longer than trees.

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You can't hum while holding your nose closed. Try it!

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Koalas' fingerprints are so similar to humans that they could taint crime scenes.

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

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Human teeth are as strong as shark teeth.

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The shortest war in history, between Britain and Zanzibar, lasted just 38 minutes.

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A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.

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Cows have best friends and can become stressed when separated.

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Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.

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A day on Mercury is twice as long as its year.

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Humans are the only animals that blush.

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Avocados are poisonous to birds.

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The inventor of the Pringles can is now buried in one.

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Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.

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An astronaut's footprint on the moon could last up to 100 million years due to the lack of atmosphere and erosion.

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Sea otters hold hands while sleeping to keep from drifting apart.

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The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.

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Hot water freezes faster than cold water under certain conditions, known as the Mpemba effect.

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The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.

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You can't lick your elbow. It's physically impossible for most people.

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A single strand of spider silk is stronger than a steel wire of the same thickness.

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Butterflies taste with their feet.

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A snail can sleep for three years without eating.

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Humans are bioluminescent, meaning we emit light.

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A day on Jupiter is only about 10 hours long, making it the planet with the shortest day in our solar system.

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Cows produce more milk when they listen to relaxing music.

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The inventor of the frisbee was turned into a frisbee after he died.

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The driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile

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A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance”

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The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to thermal expansion of the iron.

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

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Octopuses have three hearts.

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The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.

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A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale

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The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days

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The longest English word without a vowel is "rhythms"

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Honeybees can recognize human faces

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The total weight of all the ants on Earth is about the same as the total weight of all the humans on Earth

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Scotland has 421 words for "snow"

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The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green

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Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't

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The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "I am"

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A group of crows is called a murder

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Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire

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The Earth's core is hotter than the surface of the sun

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The world's largest snowflake ever recorded was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick

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The city of Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world that straddles two continents: Europe and Asia

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The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old

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The country of Monaco has a smaller land area than Central Park in New York City

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

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The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans

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The largest volcano in the solar system is Olympus Mons on Mars

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The world's oldest known living organism is a tree named "Methuselah," which is over 4,800 years old

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The smell of freshly-cut grass is actually a plant distress call

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The original name of the search engine Google was "Backrub”

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