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