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