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