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