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