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