Tell me fun facts
Did you know that honey never spoils? Archaeologists have found edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs!
The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896. It lasted only 38 minutes!
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
The oldest known customer complaint dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, around 1750 BCE.
The word googolplex is so big that if you wrote a zero on every particle in the universe, you still wouldn’t have written a googolplex.
Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to prevent drifting apart.
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated from them.
The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to thermal expansion.
Penguins have a specific stone they propose with to their mates.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Snails can sleep for up to three years.
Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramids.
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
Cows have regional accents.
The longest word in English is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The world’s oldest known recipe is a Sumerian beer recipe from 1800 BCE.
A strawberry isn’t a berry, but a banana is.
All giant pandas in zoos around the world are on loan from China.
Octopuses have three hearts.
Tell me fun facts part 2
The shortest war in history ended before it even began – Portugal declared war on Germany in 1916 and forgot about it until 90 years later.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
There is no sound in space, which means no one can hear you scream.
Cats have five toes on their front paws, but only four on their back paws.
The average person spends about six months waiting for red traffic lights to turn green.
The largest snowflake ever recorded was 15 inches across.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.
Astronauts cannot burp in space because there is no gravity to separate gas from liquid in their stomachs.
The average person blinks around 28,000 times per day.
The longest wedding veil was longer than 63 football fields.
The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat, which weighs less than a penny.
A jellyfish’s mouth is also its anus.
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space.
When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
The oldest known organism on Earth is a patch of seagrass in the Mediterranean, estimated to be around 200,000 years old.
The world’s largest tire producer is LEGO, not any rubber tire company.
The world’s largest snow maze was over 4,200 square meters in size.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
The shortest street in the world is Ebenezer Place in Scotland, measuring only 2.06 meters long.
The world’s smallest park is Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon, which is no bigger than a flowerpot.
The world’s largest pillow fight involved 6,261 participants and took place in Chicago.
The world’s largest game of musical chairs involved 7,600 participants and took place in Kandy, Sri Lanka.
The word nerd was first coined by Dr. Seuss in his book If I Ran the Zoo.
Every year, millions of trees are planted by squirrels that forget where they buried their acorns.
