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