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