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