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