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