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