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