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