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