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