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