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