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