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