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