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