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