Facts
- • The average person spends six months of their life waiting for a red light to turn green.
- • Honey never spoils; archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
- • Octopuses have three hearts.
- • The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
- • The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer, due to thermal expansion of the iron.
- • The first oranges weren't orange.
- • A single cloud can weigh more than 1 million pounds.
- • The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
- • There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.