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