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