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