10 Mind-blowing Did You Know Facts that Will Leave You Amazed

Did you know that the average person spends about 6 months of their lifetime waiting for red traffic lights to turn green?

Did you know that honey never spoils? Archaeologists have found perfectly edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs!

Did you know that the world’s oldest known recipe is for beer? It was discovered on a 6,000-year-old Sumerian tablet.

Did you know that watermelons were originally square? Farmers in Japan developed a technique to grow them in square shapes for easier storage.

Did you know that the shortest war in history lasted only 38 to 45 minutes? It was between the British Empire and Sultanate of Darfur in 1896.

Did you know that there are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe?

Did you know that a group of flamingos is called a flamboyance?

Did you know that Coca-Cola was originally green?

Did you know that playing video games can improve your problem-solving and strategic thinking skills?

Did you know that the first alarm clock could only ring at 4 am?

Did you know that an octopus has three hearts?

Did you know that peanuts are not nuts but actually legumes?

Did you know that the world’s oldest known prosthetic body part is a wooden toe from ancient Egypt?

Did you know that the average person blinks about 15,000 times a day?

Did you know that the shortest war in history was between England and Zanzibar in 1896 and lasted only 38 minutes?

Did you know that the world’s largest snowflake was recorded in Montana in 1887 and measured 38 centimeters in diameter?

Did you know that the oldest known condom dates back to 1640 and was made from sheep intestines?

Did you know that coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world, after oil?

Did you know that humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas?

Did you know that butterflies taste with their feet?

Did you know that there are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the entire observable universe?

Did you know that the world’s largest amphibian is the Chinese giant salamander, which can grow up to 6 feet long?

Did you know that the average person produces about 20,000 liters of saliva in a lifetime?

Did you know that strawberries are not berries but actually aggregate accessory fruits?

Did you know that the world’s fastest ant is the Saharan silver ant, which can travel up to a meter per second?

Did you know that the world’s largest flower, the Rafflesia arnoldii, can grow up to three feet in diameter and weighs up to 24 pounds?

Did you know that the world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat, which weighs only about 2 grams?

Did you know that the average person spends about 6 months of their lifetime waiting for red traffic lights to turn green?

Did you know that the original name for the search engine Google was Backrub?

Did you know that the world’s oldest known recipe is for beer? It was found on a 6,000-year-old Sumerian tablet.

Did you know that the first oranges weren’t actually orange but green? They only turned orange after they were named.

Did you know that a group of porcupines is called a prickle?

Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci was a vegetarian and animal rights activist?

Did you know that the longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?

Did you know that the world’s largest ocean, the Pacific Ocean, covers about 30% of the Earth’s surface?

Did you know that the average person dreams about 4-7 dreams per night?

Did you know that the top six feet of the ocean hold as much heat as the entire atmosphere above it?

Did you know that a lightning bolt is six times hotter than the sun?

Did you know that the first product ever scanned with a barcode was a pack of Wrigley’s gum?

Did you know that the oldest known sample of the smallpox virus was found in the teeth of a 17th-century child buried in Lithuania?

Did you know that astronauts cannot cry in space because there is no gravity to allow the tears to flow?

Did you know that the world’s first 3D-printed car was created in 2014 and took only 44 hours to print?

Did you know that the average cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds?

Did you know that the world’s oldest known customer complaint dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, where a customer complained about the wrong grade of copper received?

Did you know that the world’s largest collection of rubber ducks, numbering over 9,000, is owned by a man named Charlotte Lee in the United States?