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