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