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