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