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