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