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