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