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