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