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