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