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