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