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