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