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