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