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