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