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