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