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