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