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