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