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