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