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