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