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