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