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