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