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