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