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