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