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