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