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Thousands of tiny games that fit in one thumb and take about two minutes each. Tap one, play it, tap the next. If none of them scratch the itch, snap your own together out of drag-and-drop blocks and add it to the pile.
★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Dolphins have names for each other.★The moon has moonquakes.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★An octopus has nine brains.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Rats laugh when tickled.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★A group of frogs is called an army.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.