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