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