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