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