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