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