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