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