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