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