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