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