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