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