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