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