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