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