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