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