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