Here are some fun facts of all time :
1.
Great Sphynx of Giza, Egypt |
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes as a symbol of purity.
2. Picture depicting explosion as a result of war
The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896. It lasted just 38 minutes.
3. Snow flake
The world's largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. It fell in Fort Keogh, Montana, in 1887.
4. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
The world's largest gathering of zombies was achieved in Brisbane, Australia in 2014, with 9,592 participants.
6. The largest book in the world is The Klencke Atlas, standing at over 1.75 meters tall.
7. The largest snow maze was built in Warren, Vermont, in 2021, covering an area of over 4 acres.
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8. A flock of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
9. The world's largest burrito weighed over 5,000 pounds and was made in Mexicali, Mexico.
10. The longest wedding veil ever worn was over 22,000 feet long, setting a record in Caudete, Spain.
11. Space: A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis, but only 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun.
12. Animals: Octopuses have three hearts. Two pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body.
13. History: Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
14. Geography: Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world, stretching over 202,080 kilometers (125,567 miles).
15. Language: There are over 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, but about 40% of them are endangered, with fewer than 1,000 speakers each.
16. Human Body: The human nose can detect about one trillion different scents.
17. Technology: The first 1GB hard drive, introduced by IBM in 1980, weighed over 500 pounds and cost $40,000.
18. Nature: Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not. Botanically, a berry is a fruit produced from the ovary of a single flower with seeds embedded in the flesh.
19. Physics: Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth.
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