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