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