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