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