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