β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.
β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.