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