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