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