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