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