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