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