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