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