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

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

Things to do when you're bored at school

Some lessons fly by. Others feel like geology in real time. For the second kind, we rounded up quick word puzzles, brain teasers, and tiny games that load fast, run quietly, and fit neatly between the bell and whatever comes next. Half of them even look like homework, which is a nice bonus.

Frequently asked questions

Will these sites work on the school network?

Most of them, but we cannot promise it. School filters block things at random and every network has its own list. Everything here runs in the browser, so if a site loads at all, it works.

Can I play these without sound?

Yes. Word puzzles, typing games and grid puzzles need no audio at all, and the rest are fine muted. Nothing here starts blasting music the second it loads.

What fits in a five minute break?

Mini games and word puzzles are the safest bet. One round of a tile puzzle or a typing test takes a couple of minutes, so you can stop the moment the bell goes.

Is anything here actually useful for school?

More than you would think. The math visuals make geometry click, the geo games are free map practice, and typing speed is a skill you will use for the rest of your life.

Can I play something with a classmate?

Sure. The keyboard co-op games are built for two people on one keyboard, so you can share a laptop without passing it back and forth.

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