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