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