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