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