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