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