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