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