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