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