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