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