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