3. Octopuses have three hearts: two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body.
4. The world's largest desert is not the Sahara, but Antarctica. A desert is defined by its precipitation, not its temperature.
5. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction the Great Pyramid of Giza.
6. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasting only minutes.
7. The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye, despite the myth.
8. The first recorded Olympic Games took place in 776 B.C. in Olympia, Greece, consisted of only one event – a foot race.
9. The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches (15 cm) taller during the summer due to expansion of the iron.
10. The first computer mouse was made of wood and had only one button.
11. The first text message ever sent was "Merry Christmas" in 1992.
12. The average person spends around 4 years of their life looking at their phone.
13. There is no word for time in any of the indigenous languages of the rainforest.
14. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the universe.
15. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters: A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, and W.
16. The tongue of a blue whale can weigh as much as an elephant.
17. Bananas are berries, while strawberries are not.
18. The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to green.
19. The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
20. Cows have best friends and can become stressed when they are separated.
21. Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.
22. The blue whale's heart is so large that a human could swim through its arteries.
23. It's impossible to hum while holding your nose.
24. The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in his book "If I Ran the Zoo."
25. The first commercial cell phone was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, released in 1983. It weighed 2.2 pounds and cost $3,995.
26. A lightning bolt is hotter than the surface of the Sun.
27. Koalas have unique fingerprints, just like humans.
28. The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
29. The shortest war in history occurred in 1928 between Britain and Zanzibar, lasting 38 minutes.
30. Honeybees can recognize human faces.
31. The first recorded evidence of dentistry is from ancient Egypt, around 5,000.
32. The shortest-reigning monarch in history was Louis XIX of France, who ruled for 15 minutes in 1830.
33. The Titanic's distress signal was heard by a nearby ship, the SS Californian, but radio operator was off-duty and didn't relay the message.
34. The last mammoths were still alive when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.
35. The original name of Windows was "Interface Manager."
36. A group of 12 engineers at IBM created the first hard drive, known as the IBM RAMAC, in 1956. It weighed over a ton and could store 5 megabytes of data.
37. The first computer bug was a literal bug – a moth that caused a malfunction in computer in 1947.
38. The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "I am."
39. The world's most translated document is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights available in over 500 languages.
40. Some cats are allergic to humans.
41. The total weight of all ants on Earth is roughly equal to the total weight of all humans.
42. The can opener was invented 48 years after the invention of the can.
43. The longest hiccupping spree lasted 68 years.
44. Male seahorses give birth and can carry up to 2,000 babies at a time in a pouch.
45. The Guinness World Record for the longest palindrome is the 17,259- letter "saippuakivikauppias."
46. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" uses every letter of English alphabet at least once.
47. The first webcam was created at the University of Cambridge to monitor a coffee and determine if it was empty or full.
48. The concept of the "selfie" dates back to 1839 when Robert Cornelius took a portrait using the daguerreotype process.
49. The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to slow typists down and typewriters from jamming.
50. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long and is typically born blind, hairless and essentially in an embryonic state.
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