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