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