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