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