- Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.
- There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all Earth's beaches.
- Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.
- A day on Venus is longer than its year.
- Honey never spoils; it can last thousands of years.
- Hot water freezes faster than cold water under certain conditions, known as the Mpemba effect.
- Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
- The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to thermal expansion.
- The heart of a blue whale is the size of a car and can be heard from 3 kilometers away.
- Human teeth are as strong as shark teeth.
- There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.
- A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
- The human body contains around 37.2 trillion cells.
- Your body has more bacteria cells than human cells.
- Peanuts aren't technically nuts; they are legumes.
- Some turtles can breathe through their butts.
- A cockroach can live for weeks without its head.
- Cows have best friends and experience stress when separated from them.
- The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.
- There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.
- If you folded a piece of paper 42 times, it would reach the moon.
- The dot over the lowercase "i" and "j" is called a tittle.
- Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.
- There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the known universe.
- A jiffy is an actual unit of time, about 1/100th of a second.
- You can fit all the planets of our solar system between the Earth and the Moon.
- Cats cannot taste sweetness.
- The wood frog can hold its pee for up to eight months.
- Sharks existed before trees.
- The world's largest organism is a fungus that covers over 2,000 acres in Oregon.
- The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896, lasting 38 minutes.
- A human can recognize up to 10 million different colors.
- The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
- In space, astronauts grow about two inches taller.
- A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance."
- Earth's oxygen is produced by the ocean, not trees.
- Some fish can cough.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Water can boil and freeze at the same time in a process called the triple point.
- There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
- The Mantis shrimp has the world's fastest punch, breaking glass with ease.
- You can't hum while holding your nose closed.
- Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins.
- In Japan, black cats are considered good luck.
- A group of crows is called a "murder."
- The Statue of Liberty's full name is "Liberty Enlightening the World."
- The human nose can detect over 1 trillion different scents.
- A flea can accelerate faster than the Space Shuttle.
- Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.
- A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
- Squirrels plant thousands of new trees each year simply by forgetting where they buried their acorns.
- The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.
- There’s a species of jellyfish that can technically live forever.
- The only letter that doesn’t appear in any U.S. state name is "Q."
- Giraffes have no vocal cords.
- The average cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds.
- Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.
- Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
- Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongues.
- The moon is moving away from the Earth by about 1.5 inches per year.
- The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
- Some metals, like gallium, melt in your hand.
- There are more public libraries in the U.S. than McDonald's restaurants.
- Human saliva contains a painkiller called opiorphin that is six times more powerful than morphine.
- Koalas sleep up to 22 hours a day.
- There are more stars in the observable universe than grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Elephants can hear with their feet.
- The average human body contains about 0.2 milligrams of gold.
- A day on Mercury lasts approximately 59 Earth days.
- A group of jellyfish is called a "smack."
- Some frogs freeze and come back to life when thawed.
- The longest recorded human burp lasted for 1 minute and 13 seconds.
- Cats can make over 100 different sounds.
- The fingerprints of koalas are almost indistinguishable from humans.
- Dolphins have names for each other.
- Birds don’t urinate.
- The first oranges weren’t orange; they were green.
- A hippo's closest relatives are whales and dolphins.
- The human body glows in the dark, but the light is too dim to be seen with the naked eye.
- Antarctica is the driest, windiest, and coldest place on Earth.
- Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
- The Greenland shark has the longest lifespan of any vertebrate, living up to 500 years.
- Tomatoes were once considered poisonous in Europe.
- The surface area of Russia is larger than that of Pluto.
- Some penguins propose to their mates by giving them a pebble.
- The average human sheds about 600,000 particles of skin every hour.
- A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.
- The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that is attached at one end.
- A crocodile can't move its tongue.
- A lion's roar can be heard from 5 miles away.
- There are more possible iterations of a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth.
- A strawberry is not technically a berry, but a banana is.
- The strongest muscle in the human body, relative to its size, is the tongue.
- Cows moo with different accents based on their region.
- The oceans hold enough salt to cover all the continents in nearly 500 feet of salt.
- Humans are the only animals with chins.
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