" Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t. "
" Your stomach gets a new lining every 3–4 days. "
" Honey never spoils—archaeologists have eaten 3,000-year-old honey. "
" A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. "
" The first barcode was on a pack of Wrigley’s gum. "
" Lobsters taste with their feet. "
" A group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance.” "
" Some cats are allergic to humans. "
" The dot over the lowercase “i” is called a tittle. "
" Pineapples take about two years to grow. "
" You can’t hum while holding your nose. "
" Octopuses have three hearts. "
" Your fingernails grow faster in the summer. "
" Water can boil and freeze at the same time. "
" Sharks existed before trees. "
" A cloud can weigh over a million pounds. "
" Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins. "
" There’s enough DNA in your body to stretch to the sun and back—70 times. "
" The Eiffel Tower can be 6 inches taller in summer. "
" Lightning strikes Earth about 8 million times a day. "
" Why don’t skeletons fight each other? They don’t have the guts. "
" Why was the math book sad? Too many problems. "
" Parallel lines have so much in common… it’s a shame they’ll never meet. "
" Did you hear about the claustrophobic astronaut? He needed a little space. "
" Why do we tell actors to “break a leg”? Because every play has a cast. "
" I only know 25 letters of the alphabet. I don’t know y. "
" If you clean a vacuum cleaner, are you the vacuum cleaner? "
" If Cinderella’s shoe fit perfectly, why did it fall off? "
" If you enjoy wasting time, is it really wasted? "
" If a tomato is a fruit, does that make ketchup a smoothie? "
" Which letter is silent in “scent,” the S or the C? "
" If two mind readers read each other’s minds, whose mind are they reading? "
" If an orange is orange, why isn’t a lime called a green? "
" Do fish ever get thirsty? "
" If money doesn’t grow on trees, why do banks have branches? "
" The tallest mountain in our solar system is on Mars. "
" The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye. "
" Peanuts are not nuts; they are legumes. "
" The human brain is about 75% water. "
" Antarctica is the largest desert in the world. "
" An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. "
" Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards. "
" The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes. "
" Bamboo can grow up to 35 inches in a single day. "
" Dolphins have names for each other. "
" There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth. "
" Sound travels about four times faster in water than in air. "
" Glass is actually a very slow-moving liquid. "
" A day on Saturn lasts about 10 hours. "
" If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would reach the moon. "