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