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