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