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