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