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