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