100 Mind-Blowing Facts You Did Not Know

A typical cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds. Honey never spoils; archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible. Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood. The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasting just 38 minutes. Bananas are berries but strawberries are not. The Eiffel Tower can grow by up to 6 inches in summer due to thermal expansion. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the known universe. A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. The human body contains enough iron to make a 3-inch nail.

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