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