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