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