Random Interesting Facts
- Octopuses have three hearts, and two of them stop beating when they swim.
- A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance."
- Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not!
- The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
- Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
- Wombat poop is cube-shaped, and scientists think it's to prevent it from rolling away and marking their territory effectively.
- Sharks existed before trees. Sharks have been around for over 400 million years, while trees appeared about 350 million years ago.
- A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus due to its slow rotation.
- Cows have best friends and can become stressed when separated from them.
- There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the Earth's beaches.
- Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins—up to 40 minutes!
- The dot over the lowercase letters "i" and "j" is called a tittle.
- A single lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
- Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from drifting apart.
- The human nose can detect over a trillion different scents.
- Some frogs can survive being frozen and come back to life when thawed.
- A blue whale's heart weighs as much as a small car.
- An octopus has nine brains and blue blood.
- A chef's hat has exactly 100 folds, traditionally representing 100 ways to cook an egg.
- The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.
- Snakes can help predict earthquakes by sensing vibrations up to five days in advance.
- Coca-Cola was the first soft drink consumed in space.
- The Eiffel Tower can grow up to six inches taller in summer due to the expansion of iron.
- The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in their lifetime.
- An ant can carry objects 50 times its body weight.
- The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.
- The average cloud weighs over 1 million pounds.
- The world's largest pyramid isn't in Egypt but in Mexico—Cholula Pyramid.
- Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.
- Cats can't taste sweetness.
- The first oranges weren't orange; they were green.
- Some turtles can breathe through their butts.
- Humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas.
- The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971.
- Penguins propose to their mates with pebbles.
- Horses can't vomit.
- A jellyfish is 95% water.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Koalas have fingerprints that are nearly indistinguishable from humans'.
- The average person spends about six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.
- Bees can recognize human faces.
- The inventor of the frisbee was turned into a frisbee after his death.
- Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words, including "bedroom" and "gossip."
- Water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature.
- The human brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all the phones in the world combined.
- There's enough DNA in the human body to stretch from the Sun to Pluto and back 17 times.
- The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they can contaminate crime scenes.
- Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
- The first recorded use of "OMG" was in 1917, in a letter to Winston Churchill.
- A shrimp's heart is in its head.
- The world's smallest reptile was discovered in 2021—a chameleon the size of a seed.
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