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