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