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