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