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