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