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