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