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