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