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