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