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