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