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