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