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