Strange Facts

Did you know that a strawberry isn’t really a berry but a banana is?

Strange fact: A sneeze can travel up to 100 miles per hour!

The Great Wall of China is not visible from space, despite popular belief.

Octopuses have three hearts.

Cockroaches can live for weeks without their heads.

The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick is considered one of the toughest tongue twisters.

The dot on top of the letter i is called a tittle.

Wombat feces are cube-shaped.

There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the known universe.

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

The shortest war in history lasted only 38 to 45 minutes.

Sloths only poop once a week.

The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer.

A cat’s nose print is as unique as a human’s fingerprint.

The average person will spend around six months of their life waiting for red traffic lights to turn green.

The average person consumes about 35 tons of food in their lifetime.

Kangaroos cannot walk backward.

The blue whale’s heart is so big that a human child could swim through its arteries.

Astronauts in space cannot cry because there is no gravity to pull the tears down their face.

Strange Facts part 2

The word bed looks like a bed.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

A single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto.

There are more airplanes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.

If you shuffled a deck of cards thoroughly, the resulting order is most likely a configuration that has never existed before in the history of the universe.

Snails can sleep for up to three years.

The average person spends about six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.

The average human brain is about 75% water.

The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasting only 38 minutes.

A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.

The world’s largest snowflake measured 15 inches in diameter.

Astronauts grow approximately two inches taller when they are in space.

A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.

The typical lightning bolt is only an inch wide.

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their final exams.

Cows have best friends and can become stressed when separated from them.

In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow down their faces.

The average human will shed around 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime.

The shortest war in history occurred between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasting only 38 minutes.

The largest snowflake ever recorded was 15 inches in diameter.

Sunflowers can help decontaminate radioactive soil.

The world’s longest street is Yonge Street in Canada, measuring about 1,896 kilometers (1,178 miles).

A group of flamingoes is known as a flamboyance.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of just 24 hours.

Astronauts’ height can increase by up to 2 inches in space due to the absence of gravity.