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