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