Fun facts
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Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that is still perfectly edible.
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Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that is still perfectly edible.
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A day on Venus is longer than its year — it rotates slower than it orbits the Sun.
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Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.
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Bananas are botanically berries, while strawberries are not.
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The human body contains enough carbon to fill about 9,000 pencils.
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Wombat poop is cube-shaped, which stops it from rolling away.
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A single bolt of lightning is about five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
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There are more possible games of chess than atoms in the observable universe.
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Sharks existed before trees — they have been around for over 400 million years.
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Your nose can remember around 50,000 different scents.
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The Eiffel Tower can grow over 15 cm taller in summer as the metal expands in the heat.
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Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don’t drift apart.
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A teaspoon of neutron-star material would weigh about a billion tonnes on Earth.
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The first computer "bug" was a real moth found stuck inside a machine in 1947.
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Humans share roughly 60% of their DNA with bananas.
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A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance".
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It rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn, according to atmospheric models.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest human-made structure for over 3,800 years.
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Some turtles can breathe through their rear ends.
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The dot over a lowercase "i" or "j" is called a tittle.