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