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