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