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