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