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