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