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