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