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