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