Fif
teen Fun and Surprising Facts You Never Knew
1. Did you know that honey never spoils? Archaeologists have found perfectly preserved jars of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that were still edible after thousands of years.
2. The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes. In 1896, the country of Zanzibar declared war on Great Britain but surrendered less than an hour later.
3. The average person spends six months of their life waiting at red traffic lights.
4. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
5. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
6. The longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters and takes more than three hours to pronounce.
7. The world's largest snowflake was recorded in Montana in 1887 and was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
8. Cleopatra lived closer to the time of the moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
9. In Japan, you can buy square watermelons. They are grown in a box and designed to fit perfectly in a refrigerator.
10 Octopuses have three hearts, blue blood, and can change color to blend in with their surroundings.
11. The tallest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela, which is 20 times higher than Niagara Falls.
12. You are more likely to be killed by a vending machine than by a shark.
13. The first oranges weren't actually orange – they were green! The orange color was bred into the fruit centuries later.
14. Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of a QWERTY keyboard.
15. The longest tennis match in history lasted over 11 hours, with the final set alone lasting eight hours and eleven minutes.
So there you have it, fifteen fun and surprising facts to liven up your day. Who knows what else is out there waiting to be discovered? Keep exploring, and maybe you'll be the next one to uncover an interesting tidbit of knowledge.
