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