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