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