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