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