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Strange but True Facts

Strange but True Facts

  • 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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